Description
This Honey Garlic Butter Salmon recipe features tender salmon fillets cooked in a flavorful garlic butter sauce with a touch of honey and lemon. It’s a perfect balance of sweet and savory flavors that will impress your guests or make a delicious weeknight meal.
Ingredients
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Garlic confit:
- 2 bulbs garlic
- 2 cups olive oil, extra virgin
Honey garlic butter salmon:
- 1 lb skinless salmon, 500g
- 1 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- 4 tbsp butter, unsalted
- 20 garlic confit cloves, OR 6 raw garlic cloves, finely sliced
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
- fine sea salt
- black pepper
Instructions
- Garlic confit: Preheat the oven and prepare the garlic cloves by peeling and submerging in olive oil. Bake until browned.
- Honey garlic butter salmon: Season the salmon, cook in olive oil, then make the garlic butter sauce with honey and lemon. Cook the salmon in the sauce, basting until done. Finish with parsley.
Notes
- You can adjust the sweetness by adding more or less honey to suit your taste preferences.
- Ensure the garlic is fully submerged in oil to prevent burning during the confit process.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 fillet
- Calories: 420 kcal
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 400 mg
- Fat: 30 g
- Saturated Fat: 10 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 15 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 5 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 35 g
- Cholesterol: 100 mg